Melinda Rabb
Professor of English
Office: 70 Brown St., Rm. 332
Phone: (401) 863-3750
Courses '09-'10
Sem I:
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ENGL 1510A - S01: Jane Austen and Her Predecessors -- CRN 14940
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ENGL 1561C - S01: Swift and His Contemporaries -- CRN 14976
Sem II:
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ENGL 0910A - S01: How to Read a Poem -- CRN 24956
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ENGL 2560X - S01: The Eighteenth-Century Novel -- CRN 25003
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Degrees
Ph.D. Harvard University, 1979
M.A. University of Chicago, 1971
B.A. Radcliffe College, 1969, magna cum laude
Research Interests
Restoration and eighteenth-century British literature, satire, women's writing.
Professional Accomplishments
Rabb served as assistant
professor of Humanities at MIT before coming to Brown in 1981. She is the author of Satire and Secrecy in English Literature 1650-1750 (Palgrave 2007). In
addition to publishing numerous chapters in collections and journal
articles on eighteenth-century British fiction and poetry, she has
edited Lucius: The First Christian King of England for The Broadview Anthology of Restoration and Early Eighteenth-Century
Drama, ed. Douglas Canfield (2000) and a special issue
of Modern Language Studies titled Making and Rethinking
the Canon: The Eighteenth Century XCIII: 1 (1988). Current research includes a study of the aftereffects of the English civil wars on 18th-century literature.

